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19 August 2015 by Anne Bennett
ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: ARE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR JOURNALISTS ADEQUATE? The execution of James Foley by ISIS militants last year received international headlines and highlighted the risks run by journalists, especially freelancers, reporting from war zones. It also questioned the adequacy of protectio [...]
18 August 2015 by Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and Jennifer Welsh, UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect
opinion : Fulfilling our Responsibility to Protect in Yemen  According to the latest United Nations estimate, at least 1,916 civilians have been killed in Yemen since 26 March 2015 as a result of the fighting between the Saudi- led coalition, the Houthis, and their respective allies. While [...]
7 August 2015 by Carina Tertsakian
In Burundi rumours and violence are fuelling the uncertainty On Monday morning, panic spread after rumours began circulating on social media that Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, Burundi’s leading human rights activist, had been killed. In reality he was alive and well, working away as usual, docume [...]
7 August 2015 by Pierre Hazan
FORGIVENESS or punishment, a crucial debate This week we bring you JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project Pierre Hazan’s conclusion in our series on policies of forgiveness after mass crimes. Having looked at the Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi, former Yugoslavia and Sou [...]
3 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
“Guilt Should Not Blind Us” to Rwanda Abuses, Says Expert The surprise June 20, 2015 arrest in London of Rwandan spy chief Karenzi Karake on a Spanish arrest warrant brought strong protest from the Rwandan government. Karake is currently free on bail, pending hearings in October on wheth [...]
17 July 2015 by Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun, Global & European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice? Diplomacy has resumed its role, trumping ’go it alone’ military interventions. Time-wise, we’re in for the long haul- but that could spell some good news.   The fruitful culmination of negotiations between world powers and Iran ov [...]
16 July 2015 by Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner
Taking Justice to a New Level: The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic On June 3, Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic, promulgated a law creating a Special Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute grave human rights violations committed in the country since 200 [...]
27 June 2015 by Anneke van Woudenberg
Opinion: Ending Genocide in Rwanda Does not Excuse Murder When Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda’s intelligence services, was brought into the dock of a London court on Thursday, he clasped his hands above his head in a two-fisted salute to the public gallery. Dozens cheered; o [...]
26 June 2015 by Tomasz Grzywaczewski Mag. iur., PhD Candidate, The Chair of International Law and International Relations; Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź, Poland
The black hole of the quasi states This paper is devoted to the new challenge for international security system – the rise of quasi-states. Though, these state-like entities exists for more than two decades, the Ukrainian crisis and the declarations of independence [...]
21 June 2015 by Pierre Hazan
War zones: How the man in charge of genocide prevention sees the role of the media. Adama Dieng is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide to the U.N. Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. He is expressing to JusticeInfo.net his views on media responsibilities and challenges in conflict and post-conflict situa [...]
19 June 2015 by Alexandre Liebeskind Deputy Regional Director, Africa Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva
Opinion : Central African Republic, give peace a chance Last weeks witnessed more of the same in Africa : A failed coup d’Etat in Burundi, the massive violation of the seventh cease-fire in South-Sudan, and a gloomy peace treaty signing ceremony in Bamako in the absence of the Tuaregs, [...]
17 June 2015 by François Sergent, Editor in Chief
JusticeInfo.net takes up the challenge JusticeInfo.net is launched, as you can see! We will talk about justice, law, remembrance, forgiveness and punishment in transition societies and beyond. How each society deals with its political violence, past and present. Justic [...]
11 June 2015 by Kristy Siegfried IRIN
Eritrea the european big mistake OXFORD, 10 June 2015 (IRIN) - Several nations recently toughened their stance on asylum requests from Eritrea after a Danish report suggested those leaving the country do so largely for economic reasons. The results of a year-long [...]
5 June 2015 by Dr Clara Sandoval
Facing the justice dilemma in Colombia Peace negotiations are currently taking place in Havana between the Colombian government and the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) to end the oldest internal armed conflict in the world, with more than 6 million vi [...]
4 June 2015 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : The transitional Justice Gap More than three and half months after the formation of the Commissions for Truth and Reconciliation and the Investigation of Enforced Disappearance, little concrete action has been taken to move the country forward towards sustain [...]
3 June 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi and the Risk of Civil War Burundian university professor René Claude Niyonkuru, a trained lawyer and human rights activist, fears President Pierre Nkurunziza’s stubborn desire to run for a third term despite massive internal protest could plunge Burundi ba [...]
3 June 2015 by Dr Vincent Druliolle
Spain: Seeking Justice in Argentina In 2010, the relatives of Spanish and Argentinian citizens killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by Francoist forces filed a complaint in Argentina for the crimes of the Spanish dictatorship. The unprecedent [...]
28 May 2015 by Pierre Hazan
ICC, GAZA AND THE RULES OF WAR In becoming a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this past April, the Palestinian Authority intends to pursue its policy of isolating the Israeli state. How better to achieve this than to watch what is perhaps the hi [...]